My name is Peter Korn, and I've been working on accessibility for
the last 20 years.

I started that career developing assistive technologies for folks
with vision impairments, and then moved to Sun where I worked on
platform accessibility frameworks. Around 10 years ago I helped
start the StarOffice/OpenOffice.org accessibility effort (and had
the pleasure of meeting Malte, with whom I've worked for a good many
years). That's also the time I kicked off the GNOME accessibility
effort.

I've moved away from writing code on a regular basis, spending more
time on accessibility policy, design, management, and related
matters. I am co-chair of the now-mostly-quiet OASIS ODF
accessibility subcommittee, and helped with the analysis and fixes
to the ODF spec. I am Technical Manager of the AEGIS project
[http://www.aegis-project.eu], where we are developing a number of
extensions to OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice for accessibility,
including the successful odt2daisy and odt2braille extensions (for
creating digital talking books for folks with print impairments and
embossing braille documents respectively), and a
hopefully-soon-to-be-published extension to support language
learning and writing via the concept-coding framework for folks with
cognitive impairments - among other things.

I doubt I'll contribute much direct code to the effort, but I look
forward to helping with design decisions that affect accessibility.